Question

Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?

Answer 1

Scroll painters and potters came to kalighat because of the:

a. Expansion of the city as commercial and administrative center.

b. New buildings, roads and markets were established.

c. City provided a new place for opportunity to the painters and potters who came from nearby local villages with a hope of making a livelihood.

d. They came in with the prospect of getting new patrons and buyers.

These painters began to paint on new themes because:

a. They responded to the tastes, style, norms of the city.

b. They depicted the social and political changes around them in their paintings.

c. These paintings often ridiculed people who aped western style.

d They exposed the corrupt practices of the priests and expressed the anger of the common people.


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